Raise Healthy Eaters
When we talk about obesity, the common advice is often to just eat less and exercise more. That's a simplistic…
Skipping Meals Makes You Overweight
If you’re trying to lose weight, skipping meals is one of the worst things you can do. Your body needs a steady supply of food, which acts like fuel, to…
How to balance weights and cardio sessions
Fitness experts suggest that it’s a bad idea to do weights and cardio back to back. If you want to build muscle, keep weights and cardio sessions separate.…
What Is ‘Exercise Identity’?
Exercise Identity or EI is a factor which is associated with a person’s self-image and includes an emphasis on their exercise behaviour. It also allows…
Don’t Just Sit By!
Our desk jobs, the time we spend sitting and consuming digital data, sleeping, or our tendency to be generally sedentary, is growing by the day. Physical…
Aerobic exercise lowers inflammation
Excessive fat accumulation in fat cells leads to chronic low-grade inflammation, with chronically elevated levels of damaging compounds known as…
Fitness technology alone can’t treat obesity
Do our weight-loss efforts need a human touch? Or can technology alone suffice to motivate us?
Researchers from the Northwestern University looked at…